River Clyde Photography: workboat

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Monday, 4 April 2022

Helen Rice

Helen Rice is a 21-metre aquaculture support workboat working for Inverlussa Marine Services.

Photographed here approaching Oban.

She was built by Ferguson Marine Engineering at its yard on the river Clyde, to a design by Macduff Ship Design.

Saturday, 1 January 2022

SD Angeline

SD Angeline a multicat operated by Serco marine.

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Tonka

Tonka arriving at Little Cumbrae Island, she was built in 1984 for the Royal Navy, she is owned by Mirren Marine

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Ham 316

Trailing suction hopper dredger heading down the Clyde to the Holy Loch to dump her spoil.

Monday, 20 July 2020

Saturday, 13 June 2020

Friday, 24 April 2020

Harry McGill

Briggs Marine barge at Victoria Harbour Greenock.

Monday, 11 November 2019

Shearwater

Shearwater making her way down river,she has been dredging the river just outside Rothesay Dock.

She is seen here passing under the Erskine bridge and approaching Bowling bend.

River Clyde Photography

Over half of Scotland’s population lives within a short distance of the River Clyde, from its humble beginnings in South Lanarkshire where it is created by two streams the Patrail Water and the Daer Water, the two streams meet at Watermeetings where the River Clyde starts.

It’s not long before it reaches picturesque Lanark and its famous waterfalls. It eventually finds its way to Glasgow who’s citizens in the 18^th century narrowed and deepened and ultimately industrialised the river making it one of the most famous shipbuilding rivers in the world, Glasgow did indeed make the Clyde and of course the Clyde made Glasgow, at its peak the Clyde shipyards built a fifth of the worlds ships.

During the 2^nd world war Winston Churchill said that “Liverpool and Glasgow were the lungs in which the country breathed through”. Ship building along with heavy industry is all but dead on the Clyde, the majority of our industrial heritage was swept away in the 70s and 80s leaving few traces of the rivers famous past.

Leaving Glasgow, the Clyde broadens as you pass the towns of Dumbarton, Port Glasgow and Greenock, who all played a part in making the Clyde famous through shipbuilding.

At the Tail of the Bank the river broadens once more and becomes the firth with its many sea lochs coastal towns and villages.

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